Once again, on STEM day at the state fair, we taught everyone how cool chemistry is! From learning about ocean acidification to making a hidden message (or some slime!) everyone had a good time. Thanks to Market Science (https://marketsci.org/) for helping us spread our love of chemistry!
Congrats Ryan on your first first-author paper! Check out Palladium-Catalyzed Salt-Free Double Decarboxylative Aryl Allylation
We went to Linden Hills to share our love of chemistry with a new farmers market! We told them about climate change and how that affects water pH, as well as ocean life, and we showed them how to write secret messages using pH indicators. As always, making slime was DEFINITELY a crowd favorite. To learn more about Market Science, visit their website https://marketsci.org/
We got a new post-doc! We're excited to welcome Dr. Sanjay Maity to the lab. He comes to us from the Ghorai lab at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal. Looking forward to doing cool chemistry with you!
Congratulations to Amy and Mary, whose paper was just accepted in the Journal of Organic Chemistry! If you want to learn more about the multiple mechanisms of the Winstein Rearrangement, click the link! Evidence for a Sigmatropic and an Ionic Pathway in the Winstein Rearrangement
Look at us go! For Spring 2018, we've won yet another Safe Lab Award. Thanks team, for making this a safe and clean lab to work in, and keep up the good work!
Our lab clearly has the best undergrads! Our very own James Cox was named a 2018 Goldwater Scholar (1 out of 211 students picked from 1,280 applicants!) in addition to winning a departmental fellowship! We all knew James was one in a million, but now other people are confirming it.
For more information about James, see the department news page (https://chem.umn.edu/news/james-cox-named-2018-goldwater-scholar).
Congrats to Angela, Cristian and Ryan B. on being accepted to Org. Lett! All of that effort paid off, so let's celebrate!
Congratulations again to Matt, Cristian, and Rami, who were asked to design a cover for JACS! The design was brought to life by Madeline Newcomb. Read more about it at http://pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/140/4#, or read the paper at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.7b11299
This semester, Alanna Hildebradt joined our lab! Welcome Alanna!